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poster
Criterion Channel
79
75
7.2
/13370/
72
/248/
69
/263/
3.7
/33323/
100
/24/
81
/253/
86
/11/

Shadows (1960)
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
poster
Criterion Channel
75
7.0
/896/
62
/43/
70
/26/
3.6
/3038/
92
/12/
86
/2/

Burroughs: The Movie (1984)
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, and William Burroughs Jr.
poster
fuboTV
70
65
7.2
/5967/
71
/167/
69
/115/
3.8
/8354/
68
/19/
80
/223/
57
/8/

American Pop (1981)
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.6
/13635/
66
/314/
64
/188/
3.2
/9704/
64
/107/
58
/585/
63
/24/

Howl (2010)
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
poster
63
6.4
/42956/
69
/1618/
70
/1385/
3.4
/110919/
77
/146/
60
/452/
65
/36/
cc age 17+

Kill Your Darlings (2013)
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
poster
Kanopy
52
6.0
/44486/
59
/1045/
56
/877/
2.9
/29476/
47
/152/
34
/523/
56
/32/
cc age 17+

On the Road (2012)
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
poster
72
51
7.1
/1284/
74
/47/
64
/30/
3.5
/1342/
88
/17/
76
/35/
63
/12/

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
poster
The Roku Channel
50
5.7
/2181/
56
/54/
46
/30/
3.1
/881/
44
/25/
37
/23/
49
/14/

Big Sur (2013)
Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
poster
63
38
6.3
/867/
58
/19/
60
/27/
3.4
/1646/
67
/50/

Pull My Daisy (1959)
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
48
33
5.4
/2575/
42
/37/
50
/41/
2.7
/1012/
43
/2817/

The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
Neal Cassady is living the beat life during the 1940s, working at The Tire Yard and philandering around town. However, he has visions of a happy life with kids and a white picket fence. When his girlfried, Joan, tries to kill herself he gets scared and runs away. But when Joan reappears will he take the chance at that happiness, or will he turn his back on it?
poster
Fandango at Home Free
53
31
5.5
/1680/
60
/40/
48
/29/
3.0
/675/
57
/7/
37
/44/

Beat (2000)
The true story of two murders that shaped the lives of several college students who went on to become some of the most influential writers of the "Beat Generation."
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
21
7.0
/395/
61
/8/
57
/6/
3.5
/239/
76
/711/

What Happened to Kerouac? (1986)
An investigation of the king of the Beat Generation.
poster
?
7.3
/31/
10
/1/

Corso: The Last Beat (2009)
Following Beat Poet Gregory Corso - literary compatriot of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs -- throughout Europe, discovering his past, and facing his death.
poster
?
6.1
/227/

Neal Cassady (2007)
The story of what happened to Neal Cassady after Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" came out. Deals primarily with Neal's relationship to his fictional alter-ego, Dean Moriarty.
poster
?
6.4
/29/

Starving Hysterical Naked (2003)
The story focuses on the lives of a group Beat Generation artists.
poster
?
6.2
/23/
60
/1/

Breaking the rules
N/A
poster
?
7.5
/49/
30
/2/
60
/4/

The Beat Generation: An American Dream (1987)
Using original film clips and interviews, this film illustrates the 1950s social movement termed the Beat Generation. Disillusioned with post-World War II America, Beat Generation writers and painters came together because they felt mainstream America was becoming out of touch with humanity and the individual. In their interviews, characters such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso express their disdain for a society that defines success and happiness in terms of superior technology, cars, and clothing. Those individuals discuss the false conventionality of society and the dangerous world of shock treatments and conformity in which they found themselves. Their goal is to redefine this world to reflect the endless possibilities that characterize America.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
6.7
/50/

The Ballad of Greenwich Village (2005)
The story of the artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York’s Greenwich Village over many decades, and changed the face of American culture through their art and politics. The film portrays important political and social movements that started in the Village - such as the first interracial jazz club, the earliest Socialist newspapers from before World War I, and the Stonewall rebellion that sparked gay liberation.
poster
?
7.6
/19/
80
/2/
85
/3/

Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite (2021)
N/A
poster
?
8.4
/21/
60
/2/

A Poet from the Lower East Side (1997)
Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of New York to visit his friend and contemporary, the iconic beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Shot just two years before Ginsberg's death, the film follows the two friends as they share poetry and laughs, wandering the streets of the Lower East Manhattan, musing about the past and contemplating the future.
poster
47
?
5.8
/112/
26
/3/
57
/3/

Panic (1963)
In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomplices disguised as German jewelers to see the boss. He is not fooled by their ruse and is killed while the woman is knocked unconscious. She awakens with amnesia and begins aimlessly wandering the London streets. Thinking that his girl has squealed to the police, her boy friend begins scouring the town to find her. Meanwhile, she is taken in by a boxer who returns to the ring to win the money needed to get her out of the country. Trouble ensues when her lover finally finds her after the match and begins beating on the exhausted fighter.
poster
58
?
6.4
/120/
70
/1/
58
/4/
40
/2/

Love Always, Carolyn (2011)
Documentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack Kerouac and how she takes care of the literary legacy from both.
poster
?
5.0
/12/
43
/3/
10
/1/

Flesh Market (1962)
Three women are kidnapped by a sadistic lunatic and forced to "entertain" his co-workers and friends.
poster
64
?
6.8
/239/
61
/5/
63
/9/

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985)
Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William S. Burroughs. The film also employs dramatic recreations of Kerouac's life beginning with his early childhood.
poster
?
8.0
/26/
10
/1/
60
/1/

A Cool Sound from Hell (1959)
To the dismay of his girlfriend, Charlie is introduced to the beatnik scene when he falls in love with a hep chick named Steve. But when he discovers Steve is mixed up with a vicious drug ring, he has to decide where his values really lie.
poster
Kanopy
64
?
7.5
/118/
70
/4/
48
/6/

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013)
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960s and '70s to profoundly embrace life and ‘follow your own weird’.
poster
?

David Amram: The First 80 Years (2011)
The life and times of Classical/Jazz/film score composer/conductor/jazz french hornist/world musician and Beat novelist Jack Keroauc's musical collaborator, David Amram.


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